Excerpted from "My Evil Plan" -- Hall Costume Awards

Posted: May 8, 2008

It all started a year and a bit ago at Wondercon.
Catching a glimpse of Kevin and Andy at the other
end of the dealer's room, I shouted daintily "I'll do
the Hall Costuming Awards!" Kevin nodded yes, and
tragedy was born.

Anyway, it's Sunday night, and I've given out the
final "major" awards for Hall Costuming. It was very
difficult to pick the winners from the abundance
available, but I rose from the dead to the challenge
and here are the winners:Sunday Evil Genius of the Day Awards

There will still be some
given out on Monday if
possible, so keep wearing
those costume if youÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½re
not on a committee, and
thank you for making
this convention more
exciting (I didn't think that was possible) by
showing us what you can do.
Thanks also to the tireless secret agents and my
last minute assistant Paul Sinasohn. I wouldn't
have been able to do it without his help.

Jwlhyfer de Winter
P.S. Laurie had better watch out or I will steal her
shoes!

Hall Costumes under Special Scrutiny at Costume-Con 26

Posted: February 25, 2008

Are you a Genius with those Hall Costumes? Do your friends call
you "Evil?" Can't leave your hotel room without being dressed to the
nines? Planning to change costumes more than twice a day? Do your
friends think you'd be insane to wear that in the halls?

Then our team of Secret Agents WANTS YOU to get excited about
walking the halls in your (Pg-13) costumes! Our special team
of highly trained dark ops agents will be lurking in the
halls, classes, lectures, demos, panels..in short - everywhere -
looking for the brave, the adventurous, the virginal(to
costuming,)but willing, in short - YOU - wearing your living history
attire, period dancing costume, sci-fi convention conversation
stopper, movie premiere attention grabber, cos-play clothing,
peri-oid interpretations, steam punk elaborations, old school
anime recreations..in short, anything that can safely and
comfortably (it's all relative,) be worn while running from
one progam to the next. See Masquerade rules for general
no-no's about what is and is not appropriate (no dripping, no
odor, no glitter, no nudity, no tripping over yourself.You
get the idea.)

Our Secret Ops team will be trying a little something new this
convention. We'll be giving out ribbons plus small certificates to
everything wonderful we see in the halls.
We'll also be taking photos of everyone and putting them up at the
end of the day on the CC26 web site, and these special Hall
Costuming Awards will be known as "Pure Evil Genius - Hall
Costuming Awards."
Your name and the title of your costume will also be put up with the
photo and at the end of each day we will have a " Evil Genius of the
Day" winner.
At the end of the Con the best of the best will win an "Ultimate Evil
Award for Hall Costuming."

We hope this will inspire you. See you at the con.

Jwlhyfer de Winter; Evil Genius Hall Costume Head of Ops

Note: Your costume does not have to be "Evil" to win. We mean
"evil" in the same sense that "bad" means good.

Posted: February 25, 2008

On-the-Spot Competitions

Just because we like you, we're offering up the chance to win awards you weren't even
looking for. Some require little (and indeed may allow only minimal) advance
preparation or at-conference commitment.

Hall Costume Competition

Our secret judges wander the halls in search of fabulous yet practical costumes. If you're
walking the halls wearing something that astounds our judges, you may just get a ribbon.

If you've been to Costume-Con before, you've seen some of the silly competitions people
have come up with. If you haven't, you can always go to another Costume-Con to find
out what it's like.

Watch this spot for more news on some sort of culturally significant bit of silliness with a
costuming twist.

The Mouse-kerade

Invented by Fiona Leonard at CC16, the Mouse-kerade is being brought back to life by highly capable Minions Radar and Johanna at the Monday Night Reanimated Canine Party!
This is really Costume-Con in miniature. Monday night, after the conference is over,
gather in the ConSuite with your favorite plush toy, wearing a costume of your own
creation (the toy, not you, well, you should wear something too, but it's the toy that's
competing... you get the drift, don't you?). Watch the MC stretch between entries! See
tech failures! Wait for the judges to return from their deliberations (in the bathroom)!
Collect your carefully hand-calligraphed (in ballpoint) winner's certificate!